Kent

KENT — Kent Affordable Housing (KAH) has been awarded a state Small Cities Grant of $800,000 to make improvements at South Common.  The grant was announced through the office of Gov.  Ned Lamont on Friday, Dec. 4.

Gingerbread creations can be seen through the end of December at retail locations in Kent and at the Gingerbread Station on Main Street.

KENT — Responding to residents’ concerns about allowing food truck vendors in  town, the selectmen discussed the issue at their regular meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 8. The meeting was held on Zoom.

KENT — The ninth annual Kent Gingerbread Festival has arrived for the 2020 holiday season. In this ever-changing world, there were thoughts of not having the event this year — but community support was so strong that those thoughts were quickly extinguished. 

KENT — The expansive porch at RT Facts in the Kent Barns hosted a wintertime Flower Market on Saturday, Nov. 28, as “a cheerful, good-time, community event,” in the words of store owners Natalie and Greg Randall.

The Randalls offered a previous — and successful — market in May and felt it was time to do another.

KENT —Keeping track of the incidence of new COVID-19 cases locally, the Board of Selectmen sought confirmation of the procedures in place at Town Hall to ensure public safety as well as the safety of town staff, at their regular meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 10, held remotely by Zoom.

At this time of year, as we all think deeply about turkeys, there seem to be an abundance of eagles swooping through the trees. Perhaps they intend to remind us that they were chosen over the turkey as the national bird? These eagles were photographed last week in Kent.

KENT — Town Clerk Darlene Brady and other Lions stationed themselves at Davis IGA, where they accepted donations from noon to 4 p.m. IGA shoppers left their donations as they came out of the market and Lions packed the food into cartons. Cartons were then put on a pick-up truck which was already overflowing by 2 p.m.